Posted on 11/11/2017 1:27:53 AM PST by markomalley
Puerto Rico’s top emergency management official resigned on Friday.
Abner Gomez, the director of the Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency, left the post on Friday amid the country’s lagging response efforts following Hurricane Maria, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló (D) announced.
Officials revealed in October that Gomez was on a two-week vacation despite the American territory’s struggles to recover following the storm. The governor’s office at the time said he was “exhausted.”
Rosselló on Friday extended “our gratitude to Abner Gomez for his availability and work over the past months at the helm of these important agencies,” he said in a statement. “I wish him the greatest of success in his future endeavors."
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico when it slammed the island in September.
Nearly two months later, the island is still a long way from full strength. As of Friday morning, according to government statistics, less than 41 percent of the power has been resorted to the island and only 78 percent of people have clean drinking water.
The progress officials have made is tenuous: A power line there briefly failed on Thursday, leaving many cities, including the capital, without power.
Rosselló and officials from the state-run electric utility and federal oversight board are due to testify before a Senate committee next week.
The media only wanted to report what was harmful or embarrassing to the President which is why they fell in love with the San Juan Mayor. That honeymoon however, seems to be quickly coming to an end as her whining has fallen upon deaf ears including Congress and nobody’s giving her a platform any longer to voice her negativity.
Puerto Rico is in a bind as nobody but Whitefish was ready to work on their power lines using their own money & logistics. They are going to ultimately be forced to have to ask the President & Congress for help in a kinder manner.
Let me also add that the Mayor of San Juan has set the island back in huge way with the political theatre she created which ultimately forced the Governor’s hand to terminate the Whitefish contract.
Thanks markomalley. Hey, he *had* to burn that vacation time, or he'd have lost it at the end of the year. ;^)
The incompetent fool likely is a typical puerto rican leftist/socialist.
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